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Confuciusville

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May 27th 2010
Inhabitants agree: Jining has no soul. Now let's you and I agree: Jining is a lot like Dubai: it's a center of shopping and various skyscrapers--minus the exhiliration, the nightlife, the beaches, the internationalism, the English, the spiffy cars, and the down-to-earth Sheikh. If anything, the city strongly resembles familiar American cities such as Cincinnati, Dayton, or Columbus--if these cit ... read more

Asia » China » Shandong » Qufu

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more